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100 Years of Hair and Makeup in Iran Shown Decade by Decade in a One Minute Time-Lapse Video
In the third episode of their “100 Years of Hair and Makeup” series, Cut shares the visual history of the past 100 years of beauty…
Cookie Monster Shares a Series of Deep Food-Based Thoughts While Touring New York City Art Museums
Lobsters are mermaids to scorpions. In a recent video for the Mashable series The Watercooler, Sesame Street favorite Cookie Monster shares some deep food-related thoughts while…
Amazon Greenlights a Full Season of ‘The Man in the High Castle’ After It Becomes Amazon’s Most Watched Pilot Ever
Amazon has greenlit a full season of The Man in the High Castle–based on Philip K. Dick‘s Hugo Award-winning 1962 novel of the same name–after…
San Francisco’s Philz Coffee Raises $15 Million to Expand Nationwide
TechCrunch reports that Philz Coffee, the San Francisco-based company known for its strong one-cup-at-time coffee, has recently raised $15 million from investors to expand nationwide.…
‘Psychogeographies’, Life-Sized Figure Sculptures Created With Collages Layered Between Plates of Glass
photo by David Deng In his sculpture series Psychogeographies, artist Dustin Yellin renders life-sized human figures in 3D collages that are locked in monumental 3,000-pound…
‘A Briefer History of Time’, An Exploration of How Clocks and the Measurement of Time Impact Humanity
“A Briefer History of Time” is a video by Adam Westbrook for Fusion that explores the profound impact clocks and the measurement of time have had…
An Astute Orangutan Washes Herself With a Bar of Soap That She Stole From the Humans She’d Been Watching
A mother orangutan at Tanjung Puting National Park in Borneo happily washes herself with the bar of soap that she stole from photographer Kevin Su.
John Oliver Thinks a Jon Stewart Hologram Should Host ‘The Daily Show’
During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show, former The Daily Show correspondent John Oliver tells Jimmy Fallon he thinks The Daily Show host Jon Stewart should be…
Stranded Cat Bulldozes Through a Giant Snow Drift That Blocked the Front Door to His House
When Ann Got discovered that her beloved cat became stranded in a harsh snowstorm, she took matters into her own hands and called him back…
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Returns to ‘Conan’ to Share Jokes That Were Censored by NBC and ‘The Today Show’
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog returned to Conan to share a series of jokes that were censored by NBC when Triumph appeared on The Today Show to…